I created the silver scales with Finbar's A4 stencil called Ripped Fishnet and used Deco Foil Transfer Gel and my First Edition Foil and Foiling machine. This is the first time I have used this transfer gel after seeing a tutorial on the Design Inventions blog, I just had to purchase a jar and try it for myself, and I am super pleased with the results. This was created on white card and after the foil was added and cooled I used some distress inks to create the colour between the scales. The shaker part of the card was created with a double stitched circle die and filled with 2 colours of Glitter Sand, this was purchased a while ago from a shop called Bargain Busters here in the UK and was £2.49 for a large jar, I am hoping they will get other colours in as after a little research on the internet, I found other versions of this product to be rather expensive for the quantities that were being sold. In my research I also came across a kids sand product available at Hobbycraft, and it comes in 4 colours for £2 a jar so I think I will have to have a play with this in the near future. The flower arrangement is made using Memory Box Slender leaves & Hibiscus Flower, Spellbinders Monstera Leaves and Dee's Distinctively Stylised Floral. The sentiment is from MFT's Mermazing and the little star fish is from a local seaside "bucket and spade type shop"

I used the pre-coloured image from the set and trimmed it down to fit the scalloped frame. The flowers are made with a EK Success punch and the leaves with a MS punch. The paw prints are by Paper Smooches and the sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's Meow You Doin'. I used MFT's Fishtail Frames to cut and frame the sentiment.

I used one of the sentiments from the sheet and coloured it with sepia shades. I also used MFT's Tea Party die set to cut out DP from Trimcrafts Floral Muse collection, the embellishments are also from this collection. The embossed background was made using a Crafters Companion 8x8 embossing folder called Rose Garden. My "Recycled" is a wooden ice-cream spoon painted silver.

The background is made using GKD stamp set Cool Beans and I used Spellbinders Rounded square to cut and layer the sentiment. I created the coffee cup using MFT's Coffee Cup Dies, and added a recycled coffee stirrer.

I used my Copic's to colour the image and then used MFT's Wonky Rectangle Stax to cut it out. I also added a little distress ink around the edges. I then used my perfect layers tool to create a mat and my Tim Holtz distress tool around the edge. The sentiment is from the movie Yellow Brick Road and printed on my printer. The gardening embellishments are dies by First Edition.

Monday, 19 February 2018

I used my Copic's to colour the image and then cut it out and added the matt using MFT's Stitched Rounded Rectangle Stax. I used a Crafters Companion 8x8 Embossing folder called Snow, and a small snowflake punch for the embellishments. The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted from the set Thin Ice, and I used Lawn Fawn's Fancy Folded Banners to cut it out, and then layers it on LF's Everyday Sentiment Banners.

I colured the image with Copic markers and used a stitched heart die to cut it out, I also added a sentiment to the label from Lawn Fawn's Conversation Hearts. As I had used the largest of my heart dies, I scanned it into my Scan N Cut and added a seam allowance so I could create a matt for the image. The DP is by First Edition and is called Paper Flowers. The butterflies are by Poppy stamps and are Murana & Samirah Butterflies .

Again I used my Copic's to colour the image, and used MFT's Wonky Stitched Rectangle Stax to matt and layer the image. The DP is again by First Edition and is called Boho Chic. The butterflies are cut out of a patterned velum and the die is by Memory Box. The sentiment is from MFT's Jungle Gym stamp set.

My last card for this challenge is using DP & images from Decosse Dynamite Doodles

I coloured the sweet image with Copic markers and cut it out with MFT's Stitched Mod Rectangle Stax. I also used this die to cut out 2 more pieces of white card stock and emboss with Lawn Fawn's Windy & Cloudy Backdrops, I used some Peacock Feathers & Tumbled Glass Distress inks to create the colour. The red card you see behind the die cuts was just a rectangle cut to a 1/4" larger than the die and the a corner rounder used on the 2 corners. The embossing behind the die cuts is created with Crafters Companion 8x8 embossing folder - Rain. The sentiment is by X-Cut - With Love.